LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

Ameriatch One of the best films i have seen

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Floyd Maxwell I like Morgan Spurlock and I liked Super Size Me. I wasn't expecting to like Fat Head. I certainly didn't expect to agree with it.Tom Naughton won me over. He makes a lot of good points. But first, let me say that there is no point in complaining about Tom's comedic style. Morgan has plenty of that as well. Let's judge both directors on their facts.Fat Head brings up important points about how Super Size Me presented information (or neglected to do so). FH also rips the government, and rightly so.Got me researching Glycemic Index/Load, backing up what I was taught as a child (Adelle Davis household).Well done, Tom. A worthy effort.

idpjc Tom Naughton tries to make some points in this movie (in an attempted comic style), however to me is too mixed in message.For example, he points out that people are not stupid when it comes to knowing that the fast food is high calorie, however his own experiment over a month WAS strictly calorie controlled and took account of carbohydrates intake. On top of this he was doing quite a lot of regular exercise, which we all could guess would mean a healthy outcome (or certainly not a significant detriment) in his experiment, so to me didn't really prove anything to anyone.I also felt the movie to be a bit too personal in attacks against Morgan Spurlock who made the 'Super Size Me' movie.I do rate this 5/10 as at least it does give some things to think about, the overriding message from Tom at the end seemed to be that the individual has their own responsibility to watch what & how much you eat (you choose fast food yourself after all) and to take regular exercise. Good points we all know, but this movie I did not feel went anywhere near helping people change behaviour in regards to fast food consumption (or how the fast food industry would/has changed), so the 'Super Size Me' movie still stands...

Dustin Hume He mocks CSPI and vegetarians, but fails to once actually show the health effects associated with fast food. He argues that eating low calories will make you lose weight, which is true. Does lowering calories make you healthy? Of course not. The experts he brings on to the film, well, aren't well known experts. He is not showing leading researchers or leading research. Tries to say consumerism doesn't influence our eating habits or those of our kids, while it is proved that ads DO influence our choices. Does anyone really believe that companies would air commercials if they weren't effective?! He brings up one good point, not everyone eating fast food is ignorant to what they are eating. People will eat fast food regardless. Then he tries to explain BMI as only height and weight. He forgets that the height/weight measurement is only to give a guess. It does NOT give the true BMI of a person, which should be stated instead of misrepresented.

mycotropic-1-481744 I'll click "contains spoilers" because the movie is a load of garbage (from the perspective of science) so pointing that out will probably spoil if for you. Sorry.I agree wholeheartedly with the other reviewer; this is the worst example of biased junk science I've seen in quite a while. Not a single person actually working in research related to diet is involved in this movie in any way. ALL of the "experts" are diet gurus hawking their books (most of which also misuse the literature). As an "expert" is introduced it is always with the cover of their book prominently displayed. The film maker apparently doesn't know what "peer review" means. There are many experts that could address his pithy little comments but they are probably off doing actual science.Sprinkled throughout this movie are weird tangents hinting at an Ayn Rand-esque philosophy. The film maker completely ignores the behavioral science literature showing connections between advertising and education level and social position and making poor personal choices in health care decisions. He spends quite a lot of time standing outside fast food restaurants waiting to be "forced to eat their food" in an attempt to show that personal responsibility is the ONLY thing effecting obesity in our country. But he's a comedian with a camera and I guess he thought that those scenes would sound the death knell for... oh who knows, it's just ridiculous.Also increasing HDL by increasing lipid consumption happens at the cost of increased triglycerides which are pro-atherogenic. If he'd read any actual science he might have known that. He certainly didn't mention his triglyceride levels which are part of the lipid panel his doctor discussed.All of that said; "Supersize Me" also had huge problems from the perspective of his thesis compared to what he actually did. Both of these movies are comedies in my opinion, unfortunately they're popular comedies that some people take seriously.